You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose to Portsmouth)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by U2.

Nothing much to say any more about these, is there?

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose to Arsenal)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by Dionne Warwick.

Boy was I nervous the last twenty minutes of that. In retrospect, there wasn't much to it was there?

The first half we were pretty terrible, though that was mainly because we had no centre forward and thus no way to keep the ball in a dangerous area. You saw as soon as we got Arshavin on the ball in the second half we were cutting Liverpool open pretty easily.

I think it's fair to say the Gallas / Gerrard incident should have been a penalty, but it wasn't clearcut, since Gerrard actually had lost possession. If you want a stonewall penalty not given, ask Alex Hleb or Dirk Kuyt. Plus, Gerrard was just diving again last week, so he got what he deserves if you ask me.

As for my team, I don't think we can do anything without any centre forwards (with our luck Arshavin is probably out for the season), but it's nice to win one of these big matches again.

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose to Fiorentina)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by the Ryker's.

This is one I don't feel too too badly about, since I'm a little short for real songs at the moment. Liverpool lost to Fiorentina just a few moments ago, but thankfully we were all spared a Stevie G diving exhibition to go with it.

While you consider what some guy said on the internet about Ryker's ("This is one of the most under-rated hardcore bands ever. RYKER'S was the biggest band best hardcore band from Europe."), I'm going to get my voodoo dolls out and start hoping we can give Liverpool another loss this Sunday...

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose to Fulham)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by Leon Haywood.

Happy November everybody!

I honestly don't take great pleasure in these Liverpool posts lately. The YNWA series is supposed to be an occasional good-natured poke in the ribs, not a bi-weekly event!

That said, this is a nice snappy version, so at least it's good to listen to. Leon is from Texas, and is probably most famous among my generation for being the man behind the sample that drove "Nothin But a G Thang." See if you can spot the similarities in this one.

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose to Arsenal)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by Chet Atkins.

Ha ha you got beat by the kids! Actually, that's not really true. We had some kids but a lot of first teamers too. Seemed like an open enough game from my snatches of streaming clips. I'd write more but I need coffee, ta

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose to Lyon)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by Wing.

I was watching the games last night on tape delay, and since I was at work later than expected, I only watched the last part of Liverpool's match, after Lyon's equalizer. With Manchester United coming up this weekend, you can't even be sure they've hit bottom.

Well, their problems are there for all to see, so instead let's talk about the music. After this weekend's loss, I figured I needed to freshen up our collection of anthems, so I went through my notes and archives and uploaded another 15 versions -- so don't worry, we'll make it through the end of 2009 at least!

One of the links I came across was to a woman named "Wing." I dutifully downloaded the album, and hit play......................................And I must say, this is possibly the worst thing I've ever heard in my life! Really, listen to it! ('hey, this milk is rotten, have a drink!')

It is comically, comically poor. So I had to find out a little more about this lady. At first I figured that "Wing" was google proof, and I wasn't even sure if that was the name of the artist. It really sounds more like a karaoke mistake than a singer.

But it turned out to be pretty easy to track her down. I found a link to her personal web page where the album on which this song appears is for sale. Except it's SOLD OUT! Sold out! Seriously, listen to this tune again and tell me how it's sold out!

I went to her "about" page and it all started to make a little sense. Wing is a woman from Hong Kong who emigrated to New Zealand who loves to sing, apparently. So much so that she managed to record herself performing. And somehow, this music got a following, traveled across the Pacific, and was picked up by the fellas from South Park, who wrote an entire episode about Wing and her music. Here's a clip from that episode, and keep in mind that the singing on that clip is actually Wing! The worst singer on earth, and she's now selling out jazz clubs in New York. What a wonderful and odd world we live in.

So, the moral of the story is, be careful Man United! Stranger things have happened.

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose to Sunderland)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by The Crowd.

My sympathy for Liverpool is increasing as they reveal themselves to be less than what I thought they might be. It's clear by now that they're not challenging for the title. They are 5 or 6 teams that look better than them at the moment, including Sunderland, who thrashed them 1-0, albeit with the aid of a ridiculous goal that hit a beach ball on the way in and never should have stood.

Straight after the Liverpool match (which I kept an eye on as I was watching Arsenal beat Birmingham), I took in the OU-Texas game, and couldn't shake the feeling that being a Liverpool fan is a little bit similar to being an Oklahoma fan these days. Undoubtedly one of the most storied clubs/programs in the sport, a lot of recent success but a lot of frustration recently too. Both have men in charge who are undoubtedly competent but can rub outsiders the wrong way. When Rafa's scrappers scrapped the Champions League trophy, there was a lot of placing of Rafa on a pedestal with Shankly and Paisley by a lot of Liverpool fans, which seemed premature at best to me. To me, Rafa's Liverpool will always flatter to deceive.

Until pretty recently, I would have rejected any comparisons with my football team. Bob Stoops won the National Championship in 2000 and it felt like for a long time that the next one was only a matter of time. At least for me, I've never really questioned that he was the man to do it (I'm sure the bloom was off the rose a long time ago in the hothouse talk radio atmosphere back home, though). You have to wonder, though, even accounting for the bad luck he's gotten (Bradford's bad shoulder being the equivalent of a bouncing beach ball in the Liverpool game), whether this Oklahoma program is going to make it back to the top any time soon. Having said that, I'm almost a little relieved we won't suffer another title game debacle this year. My nerves couldn't handle that again!

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose to Chelsea)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by The Knickerbockers.

This is kind of a companion to the song I posted the other week by the same group. Here we have the Knickerbockers more predictably going back to Merseybeat stylings.

I can't say I'm surprised that Liverpool lost to Chelsea, but I also can't say it's of any deep significance. If Liverpool wins their home games agains tthe big four and beats everyone else, they'll do well. Losing away to a big four team is going to happen to a lot of teams this season.

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose to Fiorentina)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by Katherine Jenkins.

I didn't get to see what happened in this match until after midnight, because Arsenal was on tape delay broadcast at 10 PM and I was avoiding the news until then.

It's not really my problem, but it does look like Liverpool's best chance of success this season is to not play anyone good.

That being said, I was really more interested in Fiorentina. Those purple jerseys put me in a nostalgic mood. They've not really been around in Europe for several years, but they were a decent force to be reckoned with in the late 90s right when I was getting fully into things. Welcome back purple people!

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose to Aston Villa)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by Jerry Reed and Koko.

This year is shaping up quite a bit differently thus far isn't it? It does remind me of seasons past when Liverpool would finish very strongly and my Liverpool friends would spend most of their time bemoaning their awful August/September period which took them out of the running. Liverpool has had 4 or 5 seasons like that the last ten years.

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose to Tottenham)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by J-League Supporters.

I wouldn't have posted today, except I knew I had one more of these songs already queued up.

Liverpool's loss was a bit of a surprise, and I feel bad for (soccer) John, but them's the breaks. I'm looking forward to seeing the highlights, but as I read somewhere, if you're sending on Voronin to rescue the points, you've got bigger problems than just one match. Anyway, time will tell when the next post here will be, but it certainly won't be for another week at least.

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose to Chelsea)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by Johnny Cash.

I didn't see that coming. Sorry fellas!

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose to Middlesbrough)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by Barbra Streisand.

Clearly, it's all Rick Parry's fault.

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE (BUT YOU'LL LOSE TO EVERTON)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by Mario Lanza.

Well how about that. I thought I'd never get a chance to break these out again, given Liverpool's admirable undefeated streak. Clearly Robbie Keane bought some voodoo dolls on the way back down to London, because that's some bad karma. Lose to the Blue Noses, after 120 minutes, with ten men, in the relatively unimportant cup competition, Gerrard & maybe Torres hurt. Not in the script. "At least Lucas is suspended!" I hear you say. There's always a silver lining, as the song sorta (not really) says...

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose to Tottenham) (Again)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by The Five Blind Boys of Alabama.

Oh dear. I'll be the last person to say that the League Cup is important (for Arsenal it's a special case, since we have our youth team out, which is fun for Arsenal fans because they're good, but it's only possibly because the League Cup doesn't actually count), but it's got to hurt a little to see such an abject performance. (To be fair, they did win the second half... )

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE (BUT YOU'LL LOSE TO TOTTENHAM)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by Thomas Lang.

I'm playing a weak hand here, considering how tits up our season is going at the same time. But, duty calls, and not even we could manage to lose to Tottenham this week. So, let's have some more hilarity about Liverpool being legitimate title contenders, please!

You'll Never Walk Alone (And You'll Never Stop Talking About That Time You Beat Chelsea)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by JD Sumner & The Stamps.

From the credit where credit is due department. Besides, at the rate Liverpool is going this season, I'm never going to get a chance to share my favorite new versions of the old standard. This particular version is definitely the best one yet.*

We should probably just call off the league, because I don't see Liverpool losing it now.**

* Possibly not true.
** Possibly not true.

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose To Chelsea)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by Renee Fleming.

Tough on Liverpool, today's loss. Their luck definitely ran out against Chelsea, what with the 95th minute own goal, suspicion of offside in a couple of the goals tonight, and the ref not buying Ryan Babbel's attempt to manufacture a penalty at the end (not that I'm bitter or anything!)

Kudos to them for making it as far as they did, anyway. Now for Chelsea and Manchester United in the final. Another classic in store, I'm sure.

You'll never walk alone

So now it's Liverpool three times in a week. A remarkable scenario, you'd have to admit. Anyway, here's hoping our friend and occasional commenter Philip is feeling well enough by Wednesday that I won't feel bad about us winning 4-0.

You'll Never Walk Alone (But You'll Lose To Manchester United)

Listen to YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by Thomas Lang.

At least now we can concentrate on Europe, I suppose....